Sorley (given name)

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Sorley and Somerled are masculine given names in the English language, Anglicizations of Scottish Gaelic Somhairle and Norse Sumarlidi.

Etymology

Sorley is an

etymologically unrelated (the latter being ultimately of Hebrew origin).[5]

The Old Norse personal name likely originated as a

Edgar the Peaceful in 958.[16] Several men with the name are recorded in early Icelandic sources, such as the 10th-century Hrappr Sumarliðason, and his son Sumarliði, Icelanders said to have been of Scottish and Hebridean ancestry.[17] The first historical personage in Orkney with the name was Sumarliði Sigurðsson, Earl of Orkney, eldest son of Sigurðr digri, Earl of Orkney (d. 1014).[18]

List of persons with the given name

Somerled

  • Somerled (died 1164), Lord of Argyll, King of the Hebrides and Kintyre

Somhairle

Sorley

  • Sorley Boy MacDonnell, (died 1590), Scottish/Irish chieftain
  • Sorley MacLean, (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–1996), one of the most significant Scottish poets of the 20th century

Sumarlidi

See also

Citations

  1. ^ Hanks, Hardcastle & Hodges 2006, pp. 356, 409; Hanks, & Hodges 1997, pp. ix, 230.
  2. ^ Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 400.
  3. ^ Hanks, Hardcastle & Hodges 2006, p. 409; Hanks, & Hodges 1997, p. 230, 233.
  4. ^ Mark 2003, p. 716.
  5. ^ Hanks, Hardcastle & Hodges 2006, pp. 240–241; Hanks, & Hodges 1997, p. 220.
  6. ^ Abrams 2008, pp. 183–184; Hanks, Hardcastle & Hodges 2006, pp. 356, 409; Hanks, & Hodges 1997, p. 230; Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 398.
  7. ^ McDonald & McLean 1992, pp. 5–7.
  8. ^ Abrams 2008, pp. 183–184; Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 398; McDonald & McLean 1992, pp. 5–7.
  9. ^ Woolf 2007, p. 194; Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 398.
  10. ^ Woolf 2007, p. 194.
  11. ^ Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 399.
  12. ^ Woolf 2007, p. 194; Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 399.
  13. ^ McDonald & McLean 1992, p. 7 n. 1; Anderson 1922, pp. 468–469.
  14. ^ Woolf 2007, p. 194.
  15. ^ McDonald & McLean 1992, p. 7 n. 1.
  16. ^ Abrams 2008, pp. 183–184.
  17. ^ Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 399; McDonald & McLean 1992, p. 7 n. 1.
  18. ^ Fellows-Jensen 1995, p. 398.

References

  • Abrams, Leslie (2008), "King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw", in Scragg, Donald (ed.), Edgar, King of the English, 959–975: New Interpretations, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, Woodbridge:
    ISSN 1478-6710
    .
  • Anderson, Alan Orr, ed. (1922), Early Sources of Scottish History: A.D. 500 to 1286, vol. 1, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
  • Fellows-Jensen, Gillian (1995), "Some Orkney Personal Names", in Batey, Colleen E.; Jesch, Judith; Morris, Christopher D. (eds.), The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney, and the North Atlantic, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 397–407.
  • ISBN 0-19-860094-1
    .
  • ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
    .
  • Mark, Colin (2003), The Gaelic-English Dictionary, London:
    ISBN 0-203-27706-6
    .
  • McDonald, Russell Andrew; McLean, Scott A. (1992), "Somerled of Argyll: A New Look at Old Problems",
    JSTOR 25530531
    .
  • ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8
    .
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